The Pirate Bay Trial

[Husar]

What is wrong with that? Music industry has burned their butts because they fought against their greatest oppertunity ever, let them sit on it and feel it. Maybe some people learn from their mistakes.

What's your alternative? Waving the magic law-enforcement wand and making piracy disappear? Ain't gonna happen. It's not a question of us thinking they should do something; rather, it's a matter of dealing with technological and social reality, and adapting as a business.

Filesharing ain't going away. Businesses need to adapt if they want to thrive. This is a forum of people who love the gaming industry.

Uhm, they can go down if they have to, my point is just that two wrongs don't make a right and if people don't like their music, why do they steal it? Let them go down the proper way by not buying it but when theft is not prosecuted anymore something is wrong IMO.

i doubt that onlive will threaten the game business.

I never said it did, I said the exact opposite, it will save the business because when you just get a video stream you have no way to copy the game except if you can hack their servers and even then they may find ways to prevent that from being easy if they really want to. That way the industry has adapted to filesharing and the customers get their video games as a badly compressed stream with no way to mod games and complete dependancy on the online service, no wonder EA and other big publishers have already said they'll participate. If they'd release their games exclusively on OnLive then they use some of the best copy protection possible while the customers get absolutely no control at all anymore, you can't really copy the game if all you ever get is a video stream.
Well, it IS however an adaption to the modern internet era but one I absolutely don't like and would rather do without, but seems the pirate supporters disagree.